Events List

In our first SHORTS@45 for the year New Stories from Old Friends, one of Melbourne’s favourite writers, Arnold Zable, will read from his newly-released work of non-fiction THE FIGHTER and acclaimed novelist Rod Jones gives us a sneak preview of his new novel THE MOTHERS.

This review ofCafé Scheherazade was written by Andrew Fuhrmann on March 11 for Curtain Call. See it in its original context here.

This is a joy. It is a vast-hearted, gleeful riot of story, music, dance, wonderment and cake. It is a cosy transport from soulless metropolis to vibrant cosmopolis. It is an immersion into the twinned arts of memory and narration. It is a close encounter with profoundly mythical characters, survivors from another world, at once real and familiar to the present, but also fantastical, impossible in their courage.

The Antipodes Festival held a vibrant and full-to-capacity launch of Australian Cypriot writer Andrea Demetriou's poetry collection The Mountains Couldn't Walk Away in the fortyfivedownstairs theatre last night. The book was launched by Tim Colebatch (Economics Editor, The Age), Christos…